See: http://linuxtoday.com/it_management/2004021302326NWBZMR
"Enterprise decision makers are buying into Linux more than ever,
and that commitment is extending beyond the perimeter, where the OS
has found a comfortable home.
"In an online spending survey of 130 IT managers and decision
makers, 30% said that, among Linux-related projects planned for 2004,
a data center migration to Linux would receive the greatest monetary
commitment. Of that percentage, 52.7% indicated they'd be spending up
to $99,000 on the migration, and 13% expect to spend between $100,000
and $499,000.
"The data service division of the Oklahoma Department of Human
Services recently committed to an IBM zServer on Linux to run an
Oracle application that previously ran on HP-UX. According to
information systems planning specialist Bob Howard, the division plans
to consolidate other file, print, database and application servers
onto the zServer under z/VM and z/Linux..."
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